For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.
We have here an interview between the two happy mothers, Elisabeth and Mary: the angel, by intimating to Mary the favour bestowed on her cousin Elisabeth (Luk 1:36), gave occasion for it; and sometimes it may prove a better piece of service that we think to bring good people together, to compare notes. Here is, I. The visit which Mary made to Elisabeth.
Commenting on Luke 1:39-56
For lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears,.... This she mentions, as the signal by which she knew that she was the mother of her Lord; namely, from that unusual and extraordinary motion of the child, she felt within her: the babe leaped in my womb for joy; that the mother of her Lord, and his, was come thither...
VISIT OF MARY TO ELISABETH. (Luke 1:39-56) hill country--the mountainous tract running along the middle of Judea, from north to south [WEBSTER and WILKINSON]. with haste--transported with the announcement to herself and with the tidings, now first made known to her, of Elisabeth's condition. a city of Juda--probably Hebron (see Jos 20:7; Jos 21:11).
Commenting on Luke 1:39-56